Geek Counterpoint -- Your antidote to soundbite science!
Your own personal geek-to-English translator, in handy Podcast form! Equal parts topical science background, correction / explanation of poorly reported science & tech issues, and just plain interesting points to ponder. A 20 minute helping of critical thinking every week, presented in conversational style and with a dash of dry humor.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2007
GC060 Climate Change Impacts
Now that we've gone through the science behind climate change, and knocked down most of the kooks surrounding the issue, it's time to talk about what we're up against. In this episode, I spend a bit…
00:27:35 |
Sat 02 Jun 2007
GC059 Climate Change Proponents
Since the opponents of the climate change consensus have had their turn, now it's time to give the supporters of the consensus a little working over. Since this is the seventh episode in a series, I…
00:28:53 |
Sun 13 May 2007
GC058 Swindled!
A couple of Geek Counterpoint listeners (thanks, Travis and Bill!) pointed me to a show recently aired on BBC channel 4 called "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It purports to be a documentary, an…
00:23:27 |
Sat 24 Mar 2007
GC057 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 3)
Now that we've simplified things by covering the more common arguments made by climate change skeptics, this episode is devoted to discussing some specific climate change skeptics and their arguments…
00:27:16 |
Tue 13 Mar 2007
GC056 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 2)
A continuation of episode 54's treatment of general points used by climate change skeptics. Since this is the fourth episode in a series, I'd recommend that before listening to this episode, you fir…
00:25:05 |
Wed 21 Feb 2007
GC055 Space Weapons
When the Chinese government demolished one of its aging weather satellites a few weeks ago, they did more than just test out a potentially useful technology. They also cluttered up low Earth orbit w…
00:34:13 |
Sat 10 Feb 2007
GC054 Climate Change: the Skeptics (part 1)
It's taken some time to do a reasonable level of fact checking, but my climate cats have now been successfully herded, so it's (finally!) time for another climate change episode.
Since (at least in …
00:37:46 |
Tue 23 Jan 2007
GC053 Sergey Korolyov
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of a giant of space exploration -- Sergey Korolyov (sometimes also transliterated as Sergei Korolev). For much of the 20th century, Korolyov was the prime…
00:16:39 |
Fri 12 Jan 2007
GC052 Antikythera Mechanism
Sure, it's not much to look at -- but this humble lump of corroded bronze completely demolished our previous understanding of the history of mechanical inventions. The Antikythera Mechanism was buil…
00:23:12 |
Thu 04 Jan 2007
GC051 Stardust Preliminary Results
Yes, I know -- I just talked about Stardust in episode 50. But in the meantime, the first batch of preliminary science papers was released on the 15th of December in the journal Science. There's a …
00:24:06 |
Thu 21 Dec 2006
GC050 News Grab Bag #5
Yes, it's time for another "grab bag" episode to get everybody caught up on recent and semi-recent developments in topics I've covered in past episodes. This week's fodder includes updates on the fo…
00:34:17 |
Fri 08 Dec 2006
GC049 Reactionless Drives
It's the holy grail of flight -- propulsion without the expenditure of reaction mass. A practical reactionless drive system would render wheeled vehicles (flying cars, anyone?), aircraft with wings,…
00:17:14 |
Wed 29 Nov 2006
GC048 A Tale of Two Caves...
I talked at length about the Neanderthals just a few months ago, and then as often seems to happen, a bunch of new Neanderthal news popped up shortly afterwards. Listen in this week, and you'll get …
00:21:10 |
Tue 21 Nov 2006
GC047 Climate Change and Logical Fallacies
This episode, the second in a series on climate change, is intended to give everybody a little background in logical fallacies. In particular, a number of logical fallacies seem to be particularly p…
00:28:15 |
Mon 13 Nov 2006
GC046 Flying Aircraft Carriers
A few weeks ago, researchers finished the first exhaustive study performed of the wreck of the USS Macon, a U.S. Navy airship. What's unique about this particular wreck is that the Macon isn't alone…
00:20:29 |
Wed 01 Nov 2006
GC045 Climate Change 101
At least in the U.S. (and judging by material on the net, increasingly in Canada and Australia as well), debate about climate change long ago left the scientific arena, and entered the world of polit…
00:27:37 |
Tue 24 Oct 2006
GC044 The 2006 U.S. National Space Policy document
A few days ago, the White House released an update to the United States' "National Space Policy" document. In a sense, an update is overdue as this document hasn't been tweaked since 1996, when Clin…
00:20:50 |
Sat 14 Oct 2006
GC043 Social Darwinism and Eugenics
So-called social "Darwinism" and eugenics are two intertwined topics that always seem to come up whenever somebody wants to insult, or at least disparage, the scientific community in general. Realis…
00:23:15 |
Sun 08 Oct 2006
GC041 "Mr. O" Goes to Mars
MRO, a.k.a. the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, just got into its science orbit. As a result, you should expect to soon see a flood of new images and other interesting data coming back from Mars (addin…
00:28:35 |
Tue 19 Sep 2006
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